Word: cherishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appears unlikely that the League would have expressed disapproval of the English demands. Both France and Italy are influential in the proceedings of the League, and both France and Italy have interests and ambitions in Northern Africa. Consequently it is to their advantage that the North African peoples should cherish no dangerous ideas of nationalism, nor any hopes of successful defiance of European power. Spain has already set such ideas afoot by her incapacity to subdue the Moors, and France and Italy can ill afford to see the rise of similar convictions in Egypt. Great Britain, then, might logically hope...
President Butler, in his address to the Columbia School of Journalism, shows no appreciation of this struggle of the trade to rise into the ranks of the professions. He tells his hearers to cherish public opinion, and to guide it into the proper channels. Just how this is to be done Mr. Butler does not state. If through the news columns, any but the most impartial rehearsal of facts savours of something very like propaganda, which obviously has no place in a paper except on the editorial page, with which the average reporter has very little to do. Neither...
...critic hardly needs a serious defense in this more or less enlightened day, and what defense is necessary he himself is well able to make. Mr. H. L. Mencken, who is perhaps the high priest of modern American criticism, has said that the function of the critic is to cherish and point to the highest literary standard possible...
Upon these statements of Jefferson and Lincoln, expressing the sentiments which I am happy to believe the vast majority of our citizens cherish and to which they will ever rigidly adhere, and upon my own views expressed in this letter, I am content to stand without qualification or evasion...
...Please convey to your associates of the Harvard model national Democratic convention my very genuine appreciation of the honor done me. It is a distinction which I shall always cherish and coming without solicitation is much to be preferred to an honor striven for in a real convention...